coherence

Before a text can make sense it must be coherent. A text is coherent when
it's reader percieves it as orderly and logical, and when its parts relate well
to each other.

An incoherent text makes no sense!

Studies of prophetic texts have swung - following the dictates of intellectual
fashion - from a presumption of coherence (in pre-critical hermeneutics) through
a presumption of incoherence on a large scale (driven particularly by form-criticism),
to an uncritical assumption of coherence in many recent literary
studies.

This page is part of the Hypertext Bible Commentary - Amos , if you have reached it as a standalone
page, to view it in context, go to www.bible.gen.nz&COPY; Tim Bulkeley, 1996-2005, Tim
Bulkeley. All rights reserved.